Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-11-10
THE DECLARATIONS
FILED IN TWO TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR
LIBEL SUITS, IN THE CIRCUIT COURT.
The Basis of the Actions Brought by Dr.. ]. Il.
Pipes Against DR.. J. W. Mccoy and the
PrOprisDrs Of the lntslligsncer.

Clerk of the Circuit Court, yesterday, tn,
declarations of the plaintiff in thu
libel and Islander suits Of DR.. j. IL
Pipes against DR.. J. W. Mccoy ant
the proprietors of the LnteHigeneer
in each Of which causes the plaintiff
claims damages in the amount of $10,0 600
In the declaration in the suit against DR.
Mccoy, the plaintiff, after reciting, will
the usual legal formalities, that he has al
ways been a good, honest and upright citi
zen, conducting himself in such a manner
as to merit the good will and esteem of his
fellow citizens, alleges that the defendant
has seriously reflected upon his character
by uttering slanderous and false statements
concerning him.
The declaration against DR.. Mccoy first
defines the term ''house of assignation, y
alleged to have been used, and then says:
"Yet the said defendant, well knowing
the premises, but maliciously and wicked
ly contriving and intending to injure the
plaintiffs good name, fame and character,
and to bring him into public scandal, in
fanny and disgrace, and to cause it to be
suspected and believed by and among his
neighbors and all other good and worthy
citizens of the State TO whom he was
known, that the said plaintiff had been
and was guilty of adultery, and 10 subject
him to the penalties prescribed by law
therefor, and also to vex, harrsss,
Cypress, impoverish and -- wholly
ruin the plaintiff, the defendant
on the first day of August, 1887, in the
presence Of divers good citizens, spoke and
published of and concerning the plaintiff,
false, malicious and delamatory words, as
follows:
"'Dr. Pipes went to a house of assigna-
ton with some prim little woman who
was supposed to he Miss Stevens
Meaning and intending thereby and
being so understood by those who heard
the said ~deiamatory words, that the plain
tiff had gone with the said Miss Stevens to
the said house. Of a~ssigaation and there
committed adultery with her, by means
OF which said premises, the plaintiff shows
he has been greatly injured" &c, TO the
sum of SIC, 900.
And again, on the same day" the
declaration charges, ''the defendant false
ly and maliciously repeated the following
words:
"'Mrs. Pipes was going out for
something one morning and forgot her
pocketbOOk and went back To get it, and
caught Miss Greenlee i'll bed with the
Doctor
Meaning aud intending thereby the
sail plaintiff had been guilty Of adultery
with the said Miss Greeulee, who was at
the time OF the committing OF the said
grievance, and had always heretofore been
an unmarried wOman, and that they had
been caught in the act by his wife. And
also in the same conversation defendant
said 'Dr. Pipes had visited a house of AZ
signation, by which the plaintiff had been
greatly injured, " etc, etc.
"And further, on the same day" the
declaration charges, 1.-THE defendant used
the following words:
"'Mrs. Pipes went to prayer meeting and
when she returned home, found Miss
Stevens in DIR. Pipes room in her night
clothes, and Mrs. Pipes said if an angel
had come down and told her this, she
would not have believed it,
'by which the plaintiff says he has
been greatly injured" Nc, &c.
And again % the same day" the dec
l~arati0n says, 1.-THE defendant used these
words:
"'Pipes was n had man. Mrs. Pipes
caught DR.. Pipes in bed with Miss Green
lee
'By which he has been greatly injured"
&c, &c.
again on the same day the defendant
had said, the declaration states that
Mrs. Pipes was going ont for something
one morning and forgot her po~cketbCok,
and went BACK TO get it, and caught Miss
Greenlee in bed with the doctor; that DR..
Reed had told the defendant that DIR.
Pipes was going to Greenlee's and spend
ing three hours every day
And again on the same day." the
declaration states, ''the defendant said
"'Pipes had been several times in a house
of %assignation with some neat little woman,
heavily yelled, supposed to be one of the
Eighth ward teachers
And the plaintiff says that these words
were such, as from their usual cOnstruc-
ton and Common acceptation are construed
as insults, and tend to violence and
breach of the peace. BY means of which
the said plaintiff has been greatly
injured to the damage of the said
plaintiff ten thousand dollars, and there
fore plaintiff brings this suit, &c.
THE INTELLIGENCER's SUIT.
In the declaration in this suit J. II.
Pipes complains of John Frew, A. w.
Campbell and G. 3. Hart, partners as
Frew, Campbell 4 Hart OF a plea fires
pass on the case, aud says that the plaintiff
Isl good, honest, upright and worthy citizen,
and as such has always behaved and coll
Quoted himself, and until the committing
Of the grievances hereafter mentioned, has
always been so reputed by his neighbors,
acquaintance and other citizens of the
said county 20 whom be was in any wise
known and whereas the said plaintiff has
not even been guilty, or until the time of
the committing of the grievances by the said
defendants, as hereinafter mentioned, been
suspected to have been guilty of the offences
ana misconduct hereinafter mentioned to
have been charged upon him by the said
defendants; and whereas, before and after
the time of the committing of the griev-
ances, hereinafter mentioned, the said
plaintiff was and had been q Commissioner
of Public Schools for the Richie OF Eighth
waGd DISTRICT Of the city Of Wheeling, in
one of the schools in which district one
Jane A. Greenlee had Heretofore been a
teacher. And whereas, also, before the
committing of the grievances hereinafter
mentioned, and before the meeting of the
Board of Education, which is next
hereinafter referred TO, there had
been made IN The lower part OF
the said city of Wheeling, and especially
in the said Eighth ward thereof, certain
false, scandalous and malicious statements
of and concerning the plaintiff to the effect
that the said plaintiff had sustained i'm
moral relations with the said j. A. Green
lee, while she had been a teacher in the
said school as aforesaid, and while he had
been one Of the commissioners as aforesaid,
on1 vharaaS aloo nm tha 18th day nf Zen |